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Microsoft Edge pdf Adding text with arabic letters disappear
Hello
While I'm studying i noticed there is adding text to the pdf so I tried that and when I use Arabic letters in the text box, The text box jut disappear (if you only use arabic and english letters).
so if you use arabic letters it make the text box disappear and when you use it with english in the same text box it disappear too and if you use numbers too with english letters and arabic, only the arabic letters will disappear and the numbers and the english letters will stay soo uhhhhhhhh help.
- Hey there, I'm back with an update! Arabic is not currently a supported language in the Add Text feature (sorry for not catching that before asking a bunch of extra questions!)
The team is looking to increase the language support for Add Text and I made sure they knew we have an interest here for Arabic, but no current updates on when the supported languages might change. Sorry I don't have an immediate fix for this!
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Download Mozilla Firefox. You can open the file there and the text will be visible and you can edit. I'm studying Japanese and had the same issues. This was the best solution. Sad for Microsoft.. LastBurrito
- Thank you very much Dear for this solution so, at least in this issue, Mozilla is betetr that Microsoft.
With Warm Regards,3 years later in 2024 and the issue is still there. This tells us how much Microsoft doesn't give a rat's as* about its customers 馃檪
what a shame we are in 2023 sill not supporting Arabic LastBurrito
- yes, I am facing the same issue when typing Bangla letters.
- Could we please also add Japanese to the list? This keeps happening to me as well. Being able to freely type on PDF's is the main reason I switched to Microsoft Edge from Chrome.
Though I'm not using PDF and I'm not sure, here is the best explanation I've ever seen.
Add non-Latin text annotations 路 Issue #15769 路 mozilla/pdf.js 路 GitHub
For your information.
- guys, they didn't even bother to fix this bug. Just use another tool for editing PDFs, way faster.
I'm disappointed w Microsoft - Same with some unicode characters, words containing 膷 or 膶 (unicode 010D or 010C respectively) still disappearing, there are a lot of claimed-by-edge-team-supported languages such as Slovenian, but it is still impossible to add text with simple 膷irk... =(
wvolkovI abandoned Edge as a tool for editing PDFs and adopted Firefox. Its latest version is occupied with a text tool and one can add text in Greek language very smoothly and easily. Microsoft seems not to care for amending this faulty feature.
For me, problem solved.
- It is the end of 2022, and Microsoft still doesn't support Arabic which is a language with more than 400 million speakers!! The more fun part is that they support languages with less than two million speakers combined!!
LastBurrito Please add Polish too
- Hi Alexandra-R. First of all, thanks to the edge pdf team for the great feature of adding text to pdf files. I think this is definitely a very useful feature for a lot of people. But it doesn't support many foreign languages, which frustrates many users. Could you please escalate this requirement to the EDGE team for expedited processing?
